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Filmmaker · Armenia

Grigor Melik-Avagyan

Died in 1994

Grigor Melik-Avagyan (1920-1994) was born in Tiflis, was called up in 1939 and served throughout the war, first in western Ukraine and then in a Don Cossack corps; he ended in May 1945 on the Austrian border and returned decorated with the Order of the Red Star, demobilised in 1946. He graduated from the Moscow film institute in 1951 and then worked at the Yerevan studio, where he was also a screenwriter. People's Artist of the republic in 1974, he died in Moscow.

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